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When paleoanthropologists finally freed the skeleton called Little Foot from its stone prison in South Africa, they believed they were meeting an old acquaintance. Instead, they may have uncovered a ...

After 13 years of meticulous excavation of the nearly complete skeleton of the Australopithecus fossil named Little Foot, South African and French scientists have now convincingly shown that it is ...

Australopithecus prometheus or Australopithecus africanus? Though the question might sound simple, it isn't so straightforward for scientists, who have been stumped by the famous "Little Foot" fossil ...

Natural history is a difficult thing to conceptualize. You’ve got eons of undocumented progress, like the evolution of many species. Take, for example, the Australopithecus, an ancient great ape ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A fossilized jawbone, which was excavated from the same site as the Burtele foot, as it appeared before it was excavated from the ...

Scientists say they have solved the mystery of the Burtele foot, a set of 3.4 million-year-old bones found in Ethiopia in 2009. The fossils, along with others unearthed more recently, have now been ...